App Inventor Summit Archive 2013

The MIT Center for Mobile Learning hosted a two-day summit in Cambridge, MA on July 17-18, 2013. App Inventor 2 was unveiled at this meeting and many discussions and small working groups were held to go over related topics for future work on App Inventor and App Inventor 2. Also, invited presenters shared the work they have done with App Inventor. Below is the schedule with relevant links to presentations or notes from the App Inventor Summit speakers and attendees.

Day 1: Wednesday July 17, 2013

Welcome & Intro

Welcome and Intro Slides

  1. Welcoming remarks: Hal Abelson
  2. Team Introductions: Caitlin Feeley, Project Manager
  3. Education Projects & Summit Overview: Shay Pokress, Education Program Manager
  4. Introducing App Inventor 2: Andrew McKinney, Senior Software Developer & Technical Lead
Playground Time to Test Out App Inventor 2

Participants were given time to test out App Inventor 2 on their own devices or ours. Check out the links below to try it yourself

Breakout Session A: Technical & Development

This session featured presentors from the Technical and Development side of App Inventor. They discussed new work involving sensing, NFC, data connections, and AppScale.

  1. Fuming Shih & Wei Li - Sensing and Cloud
  2. Michael Phox & Arun Saigal - NFC
  3. Lalana Kagal - Data connections
  4. Jovan Chohan - AppScale
Breakout Session B: App Inventor in the World
  1. Eni Mustafaraj - Apps for & by college students
  2. Jere Boudell - Eco Hackathon
  3. Leo Burd- App Inventor for Good
  4. Raquel Fernandez Martin - unX Entrepreneurship
  5. Yu-Chang Hsu - Camps/programs for students
Panel: Visual Programming Languages
  • John Maloney - Scratch
  • Paul Medlock-Walton & Lyn Turbak - App Inventor Notes
  • Daniel Wendel - StarLogo
  • Wolfgang Slany - Pocket Code
  • Day 2: Thursday July 18, 2013

    Working Groups
    1. Curriculum & Learning Resources (Shay Pokress) Notes From Working Group & Summary Powerpoint
    2. Community Development & Outreach (Josh Sheldon) Notes From Working Group
    3. Research/Partnerships (Leo Burd) Notes From Working Group
    4. Development (Andrew McKinney) Notes From Working Group
    Poster Hall

    Visiting students presented posters on various projects related to App Inventor. Here's a list of students with some links to their projects. And here's the link to photos from the poster session: Poster Photos

    App Inventor Education Update

    Link to Slides

    1. Lyn Turbak - Mobile Computational Thinking
    2. Shaileen Pokress - Resources; Gallery
    3. Lyn Turbak - Templates
    4. David Wolber - Java Bridge; Quizly
    5. Mark Sherman - Assessing CT in mobile apps
    6. Fred Martin - Surveys
    Swimming Pool: Deep Dive into Selected Topics

    People sorted into smaller groups to discuss topics that people wanted to discuss. No notes are available for this section

    Thanks for coming!